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When you’re in a pressure-cooker you learn to live and let live
Some birds are not meant to be caged, that’s all. Their feathers are too bright, their songs too sweet and wild. So you let them go, or when you open the cage to feed them they somehow fly out past you. And the part of you that knows it was wrong to imprison them in the first place rejoices, but still, the place where you live is that much more drab and empty for their departure.
Get busy living or get busy dying.
tiger you have to grab by the tail, and if you don’t know the nature of the beast it will eat you up.”
Through a bank in the State of Maine, if you please. The banker who bought them for me went to jail for murdering his wife
Shawshank Reference
for a kid the whole world’s a laboratory. You have to let them poke around in it.
We must live in the present, boy, not in the past of ‘I-should-have-nevers.’
“An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure,”
The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things you get ashamed of, because words diminish them—words shrink things that seemed limitless when they were in your head to no more than living size when they’re brought out.
I just didn’t have so much of him that I could afford to pass pieces around.
They see one little boy in a yellow plastic raincoat walking up the sidewalk, carefully stepping in all the puddles.
IT reference
You always know the truth, because when you cut yourself or someone else with it, there’s always a bloody show.
But kids lose everything unless somebody looks out for them
The most important things are the hardest to say, because words diminish them.
It’s hard to make strangers care about the good things in your life.
they ain’t gonna put us in Shawshank.”
Shawshank reference
Shawshank State Prison
Shawshank reference
A new place and a new situation make one crucially aware of every social act, no matter how small,
Until we see each other again, keep your head together, read some good books, be useful, be happy.
